How can I learn to keep my room clean?
Question:My mom put a timer on the tv so all of our posetions have to be clean and put in a proper place, and all chores have to be done, rooms cleaned,vaccumed, dusted, new bed clothes.
Help me survive this torture!!
Answers:
The first step in cleaning any room is to get rid of clutter. It collects dust & no matter how clean the room may be clutter makes it look messy. Start with your clothes, if they don't fit throw them out, if you haven't worn it in 6 months (excluding wointer clothes in summer & vice versa) then chuck it. If it's too good to throw out, give it away. Move on to your make up etc. If it's old, clumpy, hasn't been used since the 70's then it's time for it to go.
Clutter also includes posters, pictures & ornaments. Do you still have posters of the backstreet boys up on your walls?? Bare walls look tidier & more adult.
Now when cleaning start at the top & move down. That way all the dust you wipe off things ends up on the floor & gets vacuumed up. (It's better then vacuuming & then dusting because you have to do it all again.)
Clean your fan & light fittings, your aircon filter if you have one. If there are any particularly grimy spots on your walls give them a quick wipe. Wash your curtains, dust everything.
Now put everything where it belongs. I don't fold the majority of my clothes, I have on drawer for my tops another for my bottoms etc. Work clothe si hang up, jeans as well plus anything else I thinks needs hanging.
If it doesn't have a place make one or get rid of it.
Make your bed & finally vacuum.
Once your room is clean it is simply a matter of putting things back when you are finished with them & making your bed everyday. Dust & vacuum once a week & you're done.
The easiest way to keep your room clean is to put things back where they belong after you use them and to keep up with washing and vacuuming. Choose a day out of the week to do those on and stick to it. If you learn to put things away then you really won't have much to clean if your room stays clean.
First of all, try to do your bed after you woke up in the morning, make it a habit.
Secondly, avoid stacking up stuff in your room, especially those that you are not going to use. Keep them in the inventory room or somewhere else.
Thirdy, avoid keeping things beneath your bed. It just makes you difficult to vacuum that part and in time you are just lazy to vacuum it at all.
Once in a while, wipe the table and chair with a piece of damp cloth.
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Read up on it and tell her that you want to use the timer the way flylady does.
You must WANT it to be clean and tidy. Tell your mom you are going to do it, but you must find your own system.
A good system is to do one square yard or metre a day. Choose a corner and start on that today - tomorrow to do the next bit over, and the day after, the bit next to it.
Trying to do it all in one day is not your system, that's clear, because you are complaining.
Do the vacuuming one day, the dusting the next, the tidying up like I said before.
Doing the bed is vital, because everything looks messy if it's messy.
The timer on the TV will have no real use once you are up on your chores - do the bit you have decided every day... do it! otherwise the next day you have double to do.
You seem mature enough to figure that laziness has no real place in your life - and lazy people have a tough life, anyway.
Do it all in a regular system, and one day you won't even give it a thought. It'll all be done, by you, in time, in good humor. It will stop being an issue, and the timer will come off the TV - but not before then.
Good luck.
Sounds fun to me. Put a pair of socks on your hands and do the dusting as you go. Always line your waste basket with a plastic bag- in case there is something goopy in there you don't have to clean up too much. Pretend Timberlake or Akon or Usher are stopping by any day now . Organize your clutter. Throw away or giveaway stuff you do not use. Try to sing louder than the vacuum. Keep a tally of the number of times you have to bend over and pick up something.
The first thing I'd do if I were you was go through all the stuff in your room and throw everything you don't absolutely need away. If you're like me, theres a lot of excess clothes, old nail polish, papers from school ect that could take away some of the clutter. The more you get rid of, the better. That'll probably be the hard part. Everything else put in drawers. Things that you use a lot, put on top of your desk or vanity. Once that's done, vaccum whatever parts of your floor look dirty (crumbs in the corner ect), dust the lampshades and other areas that collect a lot of dust such as bookshelves, and replace your comforters with different ones. It shouldn't be that hard to do if you distract yourself- listen to music or talk on the phone while you work.
If you clean after yourself every day you wont have all that work to do all at once!
So start by reorganizing the closet, while the closet is empty clean the walls and dust this can be done one day, next you sort all your clothes make a pile of those to be washed and when they are clean put them away right away dispose of unnecessary items and use garbage bag to put all the stuff that you no longer use , after all that is done you wash all your beddings and dust the bed frame ,clean your window ,dust and vacuum and your done !
If you get organized after awhile it wont feel like torture and you will feel better and you will make your mom happy as well !
clean as you go. simple as that.
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